Nikon
has long been portrayed as a conservative company, despite the fact that it has had
a long and clear leadership in the professional camera market since the introduction
of the Nikon F in 1959.
When the Nikon FA was introduced in 1983, (along with the Nikon FE2 and FM2n) it raised
the corporate image as it was truly a revolutionary camera. It will be most remembered
for it's innovative metering system - an early testbed for the current and much copied
'Matrix Metering' system commonly found in many Nikon AF cameras as well as those
of competitors. It was also the first Nikon camera body that had shutter priority
and program automation exposure control.

This was in addition to the traditional favoured aperture priority AE and fully manual
exposure control. Furthermore, TTL OTF flash metering enhanced the FA's flash capability
and made the FA the most sophisticated multimode manual focus Nikon ever. To supplement
the FA's immense capabilities, a host of other changes occured during the early part
of the eighties. Firstly, a new line of Nikkor lenses called the AI-S (Automatic
Indexing Shutter) and a new dedicated motor drive MD-15 were introduced.
Depite all these, the FA still retained its backward compatibilitiy with the huge
Nikon system.

Affectionately
called the 'Techno-camera ' by its followers worldwide, it deserves a detailed
briefing here and fully justifies a claim as a true classic camera of modern times.

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optics("shared"
because I do wish some of you to expose to other's perspective as well. Isn't it
a sad sate to see photography has to be segmented into different camps from the use
of various labels)

Credit: Chuck Hester for some of his beautiful images used
in this site; TedWengelaar®,Hollandfor
his continuous flow of input; LarsHolstHansen, Danish 'Hawkeye' who shares the same passion;
Mr Poon from Poon photo for their input; Ms Miss Rissa (Sales Manager) & members of the Technical
Service dept. of Shriro Malaysia, local distributor of Nikon cameras in Malaysia
& Singapore, in providing so many useful input to make this site possible. Special
thanks to Mr MC
Lau, who has helped
with his images of the MF-12 databack. Michael Tan, Pertama Photo (603-2926505) for
lending his original Titanium Shutter Display Unit. Dave Hoyt who has prepared the introductory page and offer some images of his
FE2 in this site.. Hiura Shinsaku, Nikomat ML, Japan
for his contribution on all the various images; A contributing site to a long
lost friend
on the Net. Note: Certain content
and images appeared in this site were either scanned from official marketing leaflets,
brochures published by Nikon and/or contribution from surfers who claimed originality
of their own work to publish in this site based on educational merits. The creator
of this site will not be responsible for any discrepancies that may arise from such
possible dispute except rectifying them after verification."Nikon", "Nikkormat",
"Nippon Kokagu KK" & "Nikkor" are registered tradename of Nikon Corporation Inc., Japan.
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